It's vitally important that while using the epals and chat room facilities that you take care of your personal safety. The chat room does have moderating facilities and if you have any problems you can utilise these in full; however we suggest that you follow the following guidelines whilst in either of these sections:

Never give out your last name

Never give out any personal details including phone number or address

Never agree to meet anybody in 'real' life

For further details on how to keep Net Safe - check out the website www.netsafe.org.nz

Check out our Chat tips to improve your chat experience.

We want you to enjoy your experience in our chat room, so we've instilled the following guidelines:

These rooms are not private. You are responsible and liable for the things you say and do on this site.

Our chats are at times monitored by chat hosts who are there to make sure no one gets too offended or harassed by anyone. If this does happen, they have the right to kick offending users off the site. Although we would prefer not to do this, we will if necessary.

Don't transmit, promote or distribute any unsolicited advertising or promotional materials here. We're always checking the site for this type of content, and no matter how good it is, we'll remove it.

All postings become the property of e-innovatus Ltd. e-innovatus Ltd owns the content and copyright and can edit, rewrite, and use and reuse the content in any way and any media, with or without attribution.

You are not allowed to post or distribute any material you do not own or which you do not have permission to use. Ignoring this policy may result in copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights violation.

Don't pretend to be someone else while you're on the site, like another chatter or a member of the nzgirl team. In this instance, anyone found breaking this rule would not be allowed back onto the chat site.  Also remember that sometimes people will pretend to be something they're not.

Don't attempt to get a password or other account information from a member, or use an email address or information that are not yours.

NEVER give out your personal information to people. That includes your name, address, phone number or your email address.

If someone is harassing you, contact one of our chat hosts immediately or shut down your connection.

Even though we go out of our way to make this a safe and fun place, some nasty stuff might sneak in. While we aren't responsible for any material on this site that you think might be objectionable, you can certainly let us know it bothers you by emailing us at info@nzgirl.co.nz